What is the treatment for swollen legs and feet?
What is the treatment for swollen legs and feet?
Compression socks offer a gentle squeeze to your legs that promotes better blood circulation. This helps prevent fluid from collecting in your ankles and feet, which works to minimize swelling and pain. Finding compression socks won’t be difficult.
Are there any medications that can cause leg swelling?
Gabapentin is known to cause lower leg swelling. In studies on patients with shingles, swelling appeared in 8% of the patients taking gabapentin. Pregabalin (Lyrica) may also cause swelling in the feet and legs.
What should I do if I have swelling in my legs?
The first thing doctors often try are diuretics (water pills). This may not be the best treatment particularly if the swelling is not due to too much volume. Often using “counter pressure” ‒ wearing compression stockings to help push fluid out of the legs, is the most effective treatment.
How are diuretics used to treat swollen legs?
Diuretics increase the amount of fluid that the kidney filters off to be passed in your wee (urine). So when you take diuretics you eventually pee away some of the fluid which was collecting around your legs. However, diuretics are not used for many causes of swollen legs. A few examples of some treatments of some common causes are as follows.
How often does amlodipine cause swelling in legs?
The higher the dose, the more likely you are to have swelling in both of your legs and feet. One in 10 patients experience swelling when taking amlodipine at a dose of 10 mg daily.
Gabapentin is known to cause lower leg swelling. In studies on patients with shingles, swelling appeared in 8% of the patients taking gabapentin. Pregabalin (Lyrica) may also cause swelling in the feet and legs.
The first thing doctors often try are diuretics (water pills). This may not be the best treatment particularly if the swelling is not due to too much volume. Often using “counter pressure” ‒ wearing compression stockings to help push fluid out of the legs, is the most effective treatment.
Why does ibuprofen cause swelling in left leg?
Some drugs, such as aspirin or ibuprofen, can cause fluid retention and result in left leg swelling. The likelihood of this increases with long-term use. Some diabetes and blood pressure pills can also cause edema due to the way they affect circulation and blood flow.
Are there any medications that make your legs Puffy?
2) Gabapentin (Neurontin) Gabapentin is used to treat nerve pain, which often occurs after shingles (known as postherpetic neuralgia) or as a result of nerve damage from diabetes (diabetic peripheral neuropathy). This medication is known to cause lower leg swelling.